Good things happen from good doings

This happened a while ago that I keep wanting to jot down.

One day as I approached school, I saw a student ID lying on the ground in front of the library building. So I emailed this person and got it back to her. A short time later, I was heading toward the Brookline Library branch near me, and saw someone's driver's license lying in front of this library. I think the librarians managed to get it back to him since he is a patron. Between these two findings, I had dropped a new, beloved glove at Walgreens. I had purchased it on sale, as I had lost a glove to an older pair, and none of the other gloves I had were warm enough. I was carrying many bags and in chaos dropped that glove. Funny how on that day I found the driver's license, I went to Walgreens hoping that someone had found it and saved it. Otherwise I did know where else I could have dropped it and lament my loss in great grief, although giving me excuse to buy a new pair. THANKFULLY. I went in, asked, and there it was, lying patiently behind the counter. Good, good people.

Lost and all found.

Eventful week

Our new SOM (School of Management) building was just on fire. At least, the fire alarms were going off. People were milling outside, public safety was telling everyone to get away from the building, sirens are sounding, and I could see the alarm lights flashing. No smoke though, so not sure if it's a true or false alarm.

Yesterday I saw the oddest thing. This guy with a backpack was kneeling in front of the SOM, facing the Palace Road building, and kowtowing with his arms stretched out. He did that a while, then got onto his hands and toes, and proceeded to crawl forward. Then he started kowtowing and crawling. After a few minutes he stood up, and started running. Who knows where. I wonder what religion it is. I even thought maybe he was putting a curse on the campus:P Which actually might be true since the norovirus is going around, and now the SOM is on fire.

Speaking of norovirus, we got an email from Public Safety last week telling us a student had it, and made it sound like she was quarantined. This student turned out to be a fellow classmate in my YA class. And this morning we were notified that a few more students were infected too. Yesterday, someone was carried away in an ambulance from Bartol Hall.

Fun things have happened too. I finished my last class presentation on Tuesday, and totally enjoyed Avi's lecture afterwards at BU. The topic was religion and being an atheist, his son and wife laughed hysterically because they thought he was the most spiritually lacking in this sense.

Yesterday was April Fool's! I'm glad I was working because I got to witness some pretty awesome pranks. So first of all, a pro staff (Autumn) had hidden ALL the pens. I mean, everyone's, including the huge bundle at the front desk. Another pro staff (Amy) was searching high and low for them, because obviously we need pens! Autumn had left only a highlighter on Amy's desk. It's so funny. Finally Amy called Autumn, and found boxes and boxes of pens and markers and pencils all locked in the fines safe. Jim, another pro staff, in retaliation switched her mac keyboard with a dell one, taped a fork on her chair, and taped her water bottle to the ceiling. I think he did a few other things but I didn't catch on. Haha it was fun anticipating Autumn's reaction. And yup she yelled at him. She told us some of her other ideas, one which was taping a sign over the door saying everyone is laid off and to go home, and another which was unplugging everyone's keyboard and mouse.

Last night I babysitted Jessica for a couple of hours, and it was fun as always. She tricked me saying that I had something on my shirt, and I tricked her back telling her she dropped some popcorn. We played a few games, but I think she's getting tired of the Chinese game I invented just for her. I hadn't really intended to tutor Chinese last night, but I just randomly asked if she would like to learn how to write her name in Chinese, and she actually settled down for a few minutes copying my strokes. I was happy and impressed. That went over real quickly. While she was putting on her pj's and brushing her teeth, I drew some squares on a piece of scrap paper, and wrote the strokes for 'yang' on the side, doubting she'll really practice writing the character and maybe just write one and scribble or tear up the paper in no time. But SURPRISE! After she came back down, she started seriously writing that character in all of the squares, and wanted me to circle the one I thought was the best. Finally, some progress with this hyper kid in Chinese. I actually can't wait to draw more grids for her.

So this is my pretty eventful week, or half week, so far. Ok, I better get back to writing my novel that I need to turn in tomorrow and that I'm so far behind on. Saturday should be fun too, cuz I'll probably be having dim sum with a good friend, finally carrying out our plan that we had made almost a year and a half ago.